[python-committers] Can we choose between mailing list and discuss.python.org?

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Wed Feb 13 17:07:42 EST 2019


On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 12:50 PM Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:

>
> Le 13/02/2019 à 21:31, Gregory P. Smith a écrit :
> >
> >     I know I can browse easily through a 161-message mailing-list or
> >     newsgroup thread using a traditional threaded view, read what I want,
> >     come back later to read the rest, etc.  But Discourse's linear
> >     presentation pretty much kills that ability.  It doesn't even allow
> >     *seeing* the structure of the discussion.
> >
> > Neither does my email client.  It never will, nor can we require mailing
> > list participants to use any specific type of email client.
>
> Apparently you're saying that just because you can't/don't want to use a
> more appropriate tool, other people shouldn't be able too.  That sounds
> ridiculous to me.  Use an inferior tool if you want, but don't force
> other people to.
>

I also use vi (vim, not nvi, i'm not *that* level of cool). ;)

-gps
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